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Author: Pope Leo XIII

  • Vision of Satan’s Challenge & the “Century of Trial”

    Pope Leo XIII

    After Mass Oct 13, 1884, heard a vision: Satan boasts he could destroy the Church if given 75–100 years and more power; Our Lord permits it. Pope sees future wars, apostasy, persecution, then composes the Prayer to St. Michael as a spiritual defense.

  • Prophecy of Apostasy in Rome

    Pope Leo XIII

    In the longer version of the St. Michael prayer, he petitioned St. Michael against “Satan’s abominable impiety” in Rome, “the Holy Place,” foreseeing a future apostasy and spiritual attack even in the Vatican itself.